The Complete History of Poenari Castle ( Before and after Vlad)

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…He rebuilt it not because it had a glorious military past, but because its geography made it nearly unconquerable—and in Vlad's world, that was everything. The battles that shaped Poenari happened in the mountain passes around it—in the wars of Basarab I, in the campaigns of Mircea the Elder, in the long grinding struggle between Wallachia, Hungary, and the Ottomans. The fortress itself watched those centuries pass from its limestone crag, and the record of what it witnessed was never written down.